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Full-Text Articles in Water Law
Rural America's Drinking Water Crisis, Madison Condon
Rural America's Drinking Water Crisis, Madison Condon
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While Flint, Michigan, rightfully captures headlines, another water crisis affecting millions of Americans continues to go largely unnoticed. All across rural America, small community water systems are failing to protect public health due to a perfect storm of forces. Poor regulation of agricultural waste and other pollutants, shrinking populations, and aging infrastructure all contribute to the increasing incidents of water quality violations dotting the rural landscape. There are nearly 60 thousand community water systems in the United States and 93 percent of them serve populations of fewer than 10,000 people—67 percent serve populations of fewer than 500 people. In 2015, …
The Impact Of Law On The Right To Water And Adding Normative Change To The Global Agenda, Michael Ulrich
The Impact Of Law On The Right To Water And Adding Normative Change To The Global Agenda, Michael Ulrich
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A resolution was passed at the United Nations Water Conference in 1977 to achieve universal access to sufficient water by 1990. This bar was lowered significantly as part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, as the MDGs come to an end this year, even this reduced benchmark will not be reached. Water is inescapably intertwined with every other MDG, as well as the ability to exercise any human right. Consequently, the failure to achieve this goal implores an exploration of its causes. As the global community embarks on setting a new post-MDG agenda, one currently overlooked aspect is the …
The Role Of Statutory And Local Rules In Allocating Water Between Large- And Small-Scale Irrigators In An African River Catchment, Madison Condon, Hans Komakech, Pieter Van Der Zaag
The Role Of Statutory And Local Rules In Allocating Water Between Large- And Small-Scale Irrigators In An African River Catchment, Madison Condon, Hans Komakech, Pieter Van Der Zaag
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This paper presents a case study of large- and small-scale irrigators negotiating for access to water from Nduruma River in the Pangani River Basin, Tanzania. The paper shows that despite the existence of a formal statutory water permit system, all users need to conform to the existing local rules in order to secure access to water. The spatial geography of Nduruma is such that smallholder farmers are located upstream and downstream, while large-scale irrigators are in the midstream part of the sub-catchment. There is not enough water in the river to satisfy all demands. The majority of the smallholder farmers …
Possible Solutions: Policy Tools To Achieve Flexibility To Meet New Conditions, Preliminary Thoughts For Coping With Future Droughts, Maria O'Brien
Possible Solutions: Policy Tools To Achieve Flexibility To Meet New Conditions, Preliminary Thoughts For Coping With Future Droughts, Maria O'Brien
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The following comments are premised on the author's experience with the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (Conservancy) in New Mexico and its endeavor to implement a water banking system. Background information about the Conservancy is helpful for an understanding of its efforts at water banking.
In Order To Have Water: Legal, Economic And Institutional Barriers To Water Reuse In Northern New England, Michael S. Baram, J. Raymond Miyares
In Order To Have Water: Legal, Economic And Institutional Barriers To Water Reuse In Northern New England, Michael S. Baram, J. Raymond Miyares
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The maintenance of adequate water supplies to meet increasing demand upon residential and industrial users in New England is now an urgent concern. Encouragement of water reuse is one of the ways in which water conservation can be implemented. This Article, synthesized by the authors from their technical report, examines current legal and institutional methods of promoting water reuse and conservation. They analyze their effectiveness and argue that legal and political reform is needed to achieve the ends of water conservation. I
Fiscal Jurisdiction And Accrual Basis Taxation: Lifting The Corporate Veil To Tax Foreign Company Profits, William W. Park
Fiscal Jurisdiction And Accrual Basis Taxation: Lifting The Corporate Veil To Tax Foreign Company Profits, William W. Park
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"No rules of international law exist to limit the extent of any country's tax jurisdiction." Although not yet locus classicus, this assertion summarizes a view that finds favor among academic and practicing lawyers. Even if it is admitted that a relevant nexus must exist between the taxing sovereign and the person, property, or income to be taxed, the competing jurisdictional claims of other states are seldom viewed as imposing limits on national competence. This Article will examine the conflicts among rival assertions of fiscal jurisdiction that result from attempts of capital-exporting states to tax the undistributed income of foreign companies.
The Legal And Regulatory Framework For Thermal Discharge From Nuclear Power Plants, Michael S. Baram
The Legal And Regulatory Framework For Thermal Discharge From Nuclear Power Plants, Michael S. Baram
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As the rate of electricity generation increases, and as more nuclear power plants-in contrast to fossil fuel and hydro-electric facilities-are built to meet power needs, the use of cooling water and its subsequent discharge in heated states into the environment is expected to rise to massive levels. Estimates of future cooling water use vary and are subject to technical and economic developments, but by 1990, between 640 and 850 billion gallons per day are expected to be required. This range of water use can be roughly equated to one-half to three fourths of the average daily run-off of fresh water …